Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
THE RAILROADS.
JaeRsb0rO Asked to Put Her PROPOSE.
tion in Due Form and the Fort
Worth Western Goes.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande-The Cen
trail Terminus rJay Gould Coming.
Home Notes.
Home Notes.

Joe Starting, and old and well known
railroad man, was in the city yesterday
The C2r-shCpS matter is discussed NOR
and more, and our best citizens Will all
the same
A B. Judkins of Springfield, II,
prominent railroad man, was il the Citl
last night.
C.N. Right, Southwestern passenger
agent OF the East Tennessee, Virgins
and Georgia, was in the city yesterday.
Jay Gould, accompanied by NJ Hopkin;
and others Of the Missouri Pacific people
is expected in Fort Worth within the
next few days.
George II. Stevens, travelling passenger
agent of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, with headquarters at FL Paso,
was in the city last night.
II. d. Wilson of the general passenger
agents Office in St. Louis of the Missouri
Pacific, WAS in the city last night, accom-
panyIpg the eXcuTsionists.
Excursion tickets to Austin for those
desiring to attend the Inauguration OF
Gov. Ross will be sold at one fare for the
round trip by the Missouri Pacific on the
i7tl and 18th, good to return until the
10Th
That road from Bonham to Fort Worth
is now strictly in hand, and two Of our
weathieSt and most prominent citizens
are working on the matter. Bonham's
committee need not be surprised to re-
ceive call in few days.
President Paddock of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande says some of the proper
ty owners along the line of the road near
this city have suddenly imagined that the
company should pay $1,000 per acre for
right of way, which being somewhat ex-
orbitant the company will try to get into
the city some other way.
An engineer of the Houston and Texas
Central Road is expected to be here in
few days to run line or lines from
some point on the line of the Fort Worth
and New Orleans into the city and obtain
different terminal facilities. The Fort
Worth and New Orleans terminus will
not long renal where it is at present.
Jsckstoro will get its first railroad
from Fort Worth. Our people felt sorry
that the plucky little city was
wasting her energies for a time
in trying to do vain thing, put
life in the Gulf and 2 acifc, but that is all
right now; we Will run to Jacksboro over
the Fort Worth Western before many
months have passed.
Maj. John Lewis CT Austin and Dr.
Ennis of Chicago, in charge of the two
excursions, arrived here last night The
consolidated train numbered twenty-three
coaches, and was the largest excursion
party that ever left this city for C4lifor-
mia. Some fifteen tickets were sold at
the Fort Worth ticket office Five hun
rI fba
General Manager John A. Grant of the
Texas and Pacific, +. 4, Garvey, general
superintendent of road and bridges, and
l.. 5. Thorne, master of transportation
of the Texas and Pacific, arrived in the
city from FL Paso last night in Mr.
Grants special car. The party remained
here all night, and 90 up the Transcon-
tinental division this morning. T. W.
Anderson, superintendent of the Eastern
and Transcontinental divisions, will &C
company tn gentlemen.
Nice-President Lawrence of the Fort
Worth Western says the company has
written to the Jscksboro railroad commit
tee to put their proposition published in
THE GAZETTE in due form, whereupon
the engineers will at once be instructed
to run the line to Jacksboro, and from
IutIG W NIdudlu' NsOl. LAWRENCE states
that q number of the directors of the
company are now on their way to Fort
Worth from New York, and it is the de,
sire Of the company to commence work
Just as soon as practicable.
Chief Engineer Parsons Of the Fort
Worth and r Grande says the Pencoyd
Iron Works of Philadelphia are manutac-
turing a three-span iron bridge for the
company to go over the Brazos at Gran
bury, and that the bridge will probably
be completed and shipped this
month. Mr.. Parsons says that
more ties arrived yesterday, as did nine
cars of steel rails, and the intention is to
gather sufficient quantity of material
on the storage track secured from the
Texas and Pacific, so that when track
laying begins there will be no need
to stop and wait for sup
plies. Mr.. Parsons has shown him
self one of the best civil engineers
ever in Texas and takes the common
sense view that when you make up your
mind to build railroad, the way to do
is to go ahead and build it as rapidly and
correctly as possible.
Running as Standard Gauge.
Special 10 the Gazette
WACO. TEX, Jan. 13.-General Psssen-
ger Agent A. S. Dodge of the St. Lolis,
Arkansas and Texas widened railroad,